What is going on with Michelle Trachtenberg?

Her followers are calling her out on Instagram and accusing her of being on drugs, losing her hair, and having jaundice. She is having none of it, and deeming them all "haters". She admittedly looks a bit off to me.

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by Anonymousreply 56January 21, 2024 6:49 AM

She looks like shit.

Too thin, for one. What has she been in lately?

by Anonymousreply 1January 20, 2024 4:08 AM

In all fairness, she's a 90's teen princess with no career...Oxy is a popular way to deal with loss.

by Anonymousreply 2January 20, 2024 4:12 AM

I wouldn't have even recognized her

by Anonymousreply 4January 20, 2024 4:17 AM

[quote]What has she been in lately?

Gossip Girl reboot. They brought back Georgina Sparks.

I agree, she's unrecognizable but I can't put my finger on what she's done.

by Anonymousreply 6January 20, 2024 4:20 AM

Michelle was an idol of mine as a young prepubescent gay kid. I was ob-fucking-sessed with "Harriet the Spy", and also loved her on "The Adventures of Pete & Pete". I never got into "Buffy", but I know she had a following for that.

It is kind of sad the way her career has gone. I remember "EuroTrip" being the first major adult role that people took notice of with her; she also played Joseph Gordon-Levitt's best friend in Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin", which I thought she was good in. She was on a decent run in the late 2000s with "Gossip Girl" on TV and also had some major movies roles (the "Black Christmas" remake, which she was one of the best things about it, and "17 Again"), but for some reason it seems things hit the skids after that.

by Anonymousreply 7January 20, 2024 4:21 AM

She was super annoying on Buffy

by Anonymousreply 8January 20, 2024 4:22 AM

DL fave Kristin Chenoweth is cheerleading Michelle on Instagram in the comments with hard-hitters such as: "You're stunning" and "Ignore the hate baby!"

by Anonymousreply 9January 20, 2024 4:26 AM

[quote]DL fave Kristin Chenoweth is cheerleading Michelle on Instagram

They probably have the same dealer.

by Anonymousreply 10January 20, 2024 4:29 AM

She looks like she's balding in this photo

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by Anonymousreply 11January 20, 2024 4:30 AM

I've never read a positive comment about her behavior on set. Can't say I'm surprised she's had a shit career.

by Anonymousreply 12January 20, 2024 4:30 AM

Her only film performance that interested me was on "Ice Princess" and it was just to see her figure skating scenes while Madonna's "Ray of Light" was being played.

by Anonymousreply 13January 20, 2024 4:31 AM

Back in the day, that is.

by Anonymousreply 14January 20, 2024 4:31 AM

She looks like she has cancer.

by Anonymousreply 16January 20, 2024 4:33 AM

She was adorable in Mysterious Skin

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by Anonymousreply 18January 20, 2024 4:37 AM

It’s the yellowing in the whites of her eyes that is most concerning.

by Anonymousreply 19January 20, 2024 4:39 AM

R19 drug/alcohol-induced jaundice? I don't know what else it could be.

by Anonymousreply 20January 20, 2024 4:43 AM

That's definite balding and her hair is thin and brittle as well. I look better than her at 55 with a few months of heavy drinking after my dog died under my belt.

Michelle looks like she's dealing with some health issues. Unclear what they may be.

by Anonymousreply 21January 20, 2024 4:56 AM

How did 21 of you have an opinion on this?

by Anonymousreply 22January 20, 2024 5:28 AM

Mulva, you're clearly not seeing that pic the way we do because we've already seen people (or ourselves) look that sick.

by Anonymousreply 23January 20, 2024 5:32 AM

She's doing that child star mentally ill attention seeking.

Like the worst thing Amanda Bines used to yell at people was you're ugly! They think only beautiful people can be loved or something.

by Anonymousreply 24January 20, 2024 5:32 AM

I still remember her in Harriet the Spy

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by Anonymousreply 25January 20, 2024 5:40 AM

I hope the same fate doesn't await Zach Effron

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by Anonymousreply 26January 20, 2024 5:53 AM

R9 Kristin Chenoweth has a six head and looks and sounds like she has a stinky pussy. I'll never forget when she did a documentary about three girl scouts in Oklahoma who were brutally murdered forty years ago.

She wasn't friends with the victims, didn't even know them and wasn't even there the night it happened. And yet that and being in the same troop with them was enough to make her act like an expert on the subject and be allowed to make a documentary that focused more on her than them.

I fucking hate narcissists.

by Anonymousreply 27January 20, 2024 5:58 AM

R27 she was struck by lightning

by Anonymousreply 28January 20, 2024 6:00 AM

She was the worst thing about the Buffy series. She was DREADFUL.

by Anonymousreply 30January 20, 2024 6:17 AM

Well something is certainly going on. She looks terrible.

by Anonymousreply 31January 20, 2024 6:18 AM

I don't hate here at all. She was great in Harriet the Spy. Besides that and Buffy, I don't know what else she's really been in.

She just doesn't look well.

Get up, Harriet - we love you.

by Anonymousreply 32January 20, 2024 6:20 AM

Oh leave Kristin Chenoweth alone. She doesn't bother anybody.

by Anonymousreply 33January 20, 2024 6:25 AM

Drugs seem likely if I’m judging based on this alone—really though, what the fuck?

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by Anonymousreply 34January 20, 2024 10:03 PM

She looks like Frances Fisher there.

by Anonymousreply 36January 21, 2024 1:15 AM

Did she have plastic surgery, too?

by Anonymousreply 37January 21, 2024 1:36 AM

Well, this is the payback for playing Harriet M Welshman. Never should have been a movie.

Still waiting to see the karma show up at Rosie’s door for playing Ole Golly. I mean, COME ON.

by Anonymousreply 38January 21, 2024 1:44 AM

She gained quite a lot of weight about 10 years ago

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by Anonymousreply 39January 21, 2024 1:47 AM

Has she had the dreaded buccal fat removal? Her cheeks have the same sort of sunken look that comes with it. I always thought she was naturally very beautiful. She looks dour and unhappy in most of the more recent photos you see of her.

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by Anonymousreply 40January 21, 2024 2:04 AM

Reddit went nuts over this. Some people were saying she now looks like Joan Collins.

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by Anonymousreply 41January 21, 2024 2:05 AM

I always get Michelle Trachtenberg confused with that other sea cow from the Traveling Pants movies - Amber Tamblyn?

by Anonymousreply 43January 21, 2024 2:30 AM

Eyes looking very yellow in this pic:

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by Anonymousreply 44January 21, 2024 2:59 AM

She looks decades older (except not wrinkled) and very frail.

by Anonymousreply 45January 21, 2024 3:01 AM

If she's that sick, unwell and unhappy, I don't understand the constant posting of selfies. She looks terrible, why advertise it?

by Anonymousreply 47January 21, 2024 3:04 AM

R44 her lips also look like they’re about to fall off her face, they’re so dry. Weird.

by Anonymousreply 48January 21, 2024 3:06 AM

[quote]She looks terrible

Not to her, r47...

by Anonymousreply 49January 21, 2024 3:07 AM

I don’t know who that is.

by Anonymousreply 50January 21, 2024 3:10 AM

Looks like adderall-induced anorexia to me. She is way too young to look so brittle

by Anonymousreply 51January 21, 2024 3:12 AM

Michelle is of Russian-Jewish descent; as someone with a similar ethnic background (also half), I can say that Russians often tend to age hard—I saw it firsthand among my grandmother, great aunts and uncles, and great-parents. That being said, Michelle is not even 40. Whatever is going on with her does not look like typical aging. It looks chemically-induced.

by Anonymousreply 52January 21, 2024 3:36 AM

Her recent photos kind of remind me of Rose McGowan. Personally, I don't think she looks very sick, just thin with some janky facework. Obesity is so normalized that Americans think every skinny person is a dying junkie.

by Anonymousreply 53January 21, 2024 3:54 AM

Was in love with this song and this psycho in high school

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by Anonymousreply 54January 21, 2024 4:08 AM

What are yellow eyeballs a sign of? Liver problems (secret alkie)?

by Anonymousreply 55January 21, 2024 6:31 AM

Buffy kind of sucked tbh. Spike was the only good thing.

Sarah Michelle Gellar's baby voice was annoying.

by Anonymousreply 56January 21, 2024 6:49 AM

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